Mole’s good friend the pink chandelier, only colour in his underground world (apart from worms, of whom he seems a little scared) suddenly vanishes, leaving a hole to the sky and a world of colour. What might be a simple dark to light, monochrome to rainbow journey, is more subtle and more playful. I like…
Issac is playing by the stream and wonders where the water he pours back into it from his jam jar goes. Minimal text and a journey across a mythic world shows a child the rain cycle. Dreamy pictures combine with simple scientific exposition. Facts are presented hand in hand with the mystery and beauty of…
The inestimable Oliver Jeffers is angry. Angry about greed and bossiness, and this is his Aesop’s fable. I like morality tales; I learnt a lot from Aesop and from ‘Aesop in the shadows’, as Beatrix Potter expressed it in her dedication for The Tale of Johnny Town Mouse and as so many others through the centuries could. …
